Word: candor
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...were up in Vail, where we'd always come for the holidays, there was a lot of good snow, we were together, and I had my pills." Betty Ford made the worst of them. In a confession marked by candor and salinity, the former First Lady traces the history of her chemical abuse. Lesser women might have slunk off to obscurity. But Ford had a saving grace: the ability to feel embarrassment. When her family intervened, she first replied, "You are all a bunch of monsters. Get out of here and never come back. " They refused...
...added timely passages about how isolation from press oversight contributed to the Iran-contra crisis. As tough on the page as on the screen, Donaldson prides himself on having written without a ghost, and the book's rambling, unpolished quality is more than offset by his anecdotal candor...
...includes another frequently used term, "democratization" -- the greater involvement of the Soviet people in the management of their society. An important part of this is a "new way of thinking," which offers far greater room than ever before for fresh ideas, the discussion of previously taboo subjects and official candor. At every meeting we encountered examples of this new thinking...
Gorbachev was just getting wound up. In cool and firm tones, with uncommon candor, he rattled off a long catalog of abuses of the system. He charged that...
Sakharov's release seems in keeping with Gorbachev's calls for glasnost, or openness. That campaign was evident as the Soviet media promptly reported a major methane-gas explosion that claimed an undisclosed number of lives in a Ukrainian coal mine. Beyond such candor, Gorbachev seeks what he has called a "fresh voice" to provide criticism in the one-party Soviet Union. The Soviet leader may hope that Sakharov will play that role. If not, Sakharov's views may conveniently get lost in the din of glasnost. Gorbachev may further hope that Sakharov will give Moscow's lagging reform agenda...